How to get name from JButton?

Question

Hey
Is it possible to get the name from a clicked JButton in the actionPerformed so that if i have for example 2 JButtons i can do an
if statement to do different things when a button is clicked?
For example if button1 is clicked the screen writes "YippiKayYeah mother ......" and if button2 is clicked it writes "Go home Lazy Boy".
Here is my code, if it is for any use:
public class Main extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
    private Players players;
    JTextArea output;
    JScrollPane scrollPane2;
    JButton button1, button2;
    String newline = "\n";
    public Main(){
        players = new Players();
    public JMenuBar createMenuBar(){
        JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("File");
        menu.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_A);
        menu.getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleDescription("The only menu in this program that has menu items");
        menuBar.add(menu);
        // add menuitems/buttons
        JMenuItem menuItemSave   = new JMenuItem("Save");
        menuItemSave.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_1, ActionEvent.ALT_MASK));
        menuItemSave.getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleDescription("This doesn't really do anything");
        // add actionlistener       
        JMenuItem menuItemOpen   = new JMenuItem("Open");
        JMenuItem menuItemQuit   = new JMenuItem("Quit");
        // add to menu
        menu.add(menuItemSave);
        menu.add(menuItemOpen);
        menu.add(menuItemQuit);
        return menuBar;
    public Container createContent(){
        JPanel contentPane = new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,1));
        ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("middle.gif", "a pretty but meaningless splat");
        JTable scrollPane = new JTable(players.showPlayers()); 
        //Create the first label.
        button1 = new JButton("Silkeborg IF");
        button1.setToolTipText("Klik her for at se Silkeborg IF");
        button1.addActionListener(this);
        button1.setActionCommand("enable");
        //Create the second label.
        button2 = new JButton("FC Midtjylland");
        button2.setToolTipText("Klik her for at se FC Midtjylland");
        button2.addActionListener(this);
        button2.setActionCommand("disable");
        //Create a scrolled text area.
        output = new JTextArea(5, 30);
        output.setEditable(false);
        scrollPane2 = new JScrollPane(output);
        //Add stuff to contentPane.
        contentPane.add(button1);
        contentPane.add(button2);
        contentPane.add(scrollPane);
        contentPane.add(scrollPane2, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        return contentPane;
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        String s;
        if ("enable".equals(e.getActionCommand())){
            s = "Silkeborg IF"+e.getSource();
            output.append(s + newline);
            button1.setActionCommand("disable");
            button2.setActionCommand("enable");
        } else{
            s = "FC Midtjylland"+e.getSource();
            output.append(s + newline);
            button1.setActionCommand("enable");
            button2.setActionCommand("disable");
    protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path,
                                               String description) {
        java.net.URL imgURL = Main.class.getResource(path);
        if (imgURL != null) {
            return new ImageIcon(imgURL, description);
        } else {
            System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
            return null;
    public static void createGUI(){
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test af yo yo yo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        Main menu = new Main();
        frame.setJMenuBar(menu.createMenuBar());
        frame.setContentPane(menu.createContent());
        frame.setSize(500, 300);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
     * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        createGUI();
}

Answer 1

what i do with my JButtons is create and inner class that implements actionListener like this:
     private JButton button;
     button = new JButton("Button");
     button.addActionListener(new BListener());
     private class BListener implements ActionListener{
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
               if(e.getSource() == button){
                    //code for when the JButton button is pushed
     }Also, rather than comparing the names (Strings) and creating overhead, this compares the buttons reference variables :). Oh, and make sure that the buttons used are class variables. A good idea is to keep related buttons; listeners in one private class e.g. navigation buttons in a browser are all registered with the listener NavListener.